Safari Into The Serengeti

The Serengeti is 12,000 square miles of “Amazingness”. There is no other way to describe it. It is comprised of a National Park and two Game Reserves. Hunting the wild life everywhere is illegal but I never understood any other differences.

This area of Tanzania is “greener” than the places we have been to on this trip. We saw all of the “usual suspects”. Lots of elephants, Cape buffalo, giraffes, wildebeest, zebras and antelopes.

We saw a Leopard…. Hanging out in a tree.

The most incredible sites were the Lions. On a day when I did not go on the game viewing drive the group spotted 55 lions.

We could hear the lions roaring at night near our camp. We required an escort to go from dinner to our individual tents in the dark. The tents were very comfortable. We had solar power for lights but no internet and we had to charge our phones,etc. at the dining tent.

We had a real toilet and shower. For your shower you needed to schedule a water bucket delivery. The camp helpers would fill your shower dispenser with hot water and and refills if you needed more.

The area had many live and abounded termite hills that were playgrounds for the baboons.

We flew out of the Serengeti from another dirt airstrip back to Arusha.

Everyone was flying home that night but I had to stay an extra night to get a direct flight to JFK from Nairobi.

I had a whole day to spend in Nairobi so I hired a driver to show me some sites. I was able to visit the Karen Blixen Museum—Out of Africa —novelist and philanthropist. She had a large coffee/farming enterprise and at one point employed 600 Kenyans.